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World Steam Train Record

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Griff

On 3rd July 1938 the A class steam train "Mallard" broke the world speed record for a steam train.

 

 

 

Driver Joseph Duddington, Fireman Thomas Bray and Inspector Sid Jenkins.

 

In York Railway Museum.

 

 

 

A class "Dominion of Canada" from a museum in Montreal

 

A class "Dwight D. Eisenhower" from a Halifax, Nova Scotia museum.

 

 

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Griff

I obviously imagined the whole thing

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AMC RULES

No record here...but turn up the volume for this one. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju6rvbu7Cps

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1054josh

That's just awesome

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SousaKerry

http://youtu.be/keVlOSf38o4

This is the one I want to see run again. Rode behind it 20 years ago this summer and it was mothballed 2 years later

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Griff

Yes Jim, that's the one. It's a good job someone around here knows what they're doing, damned interweb.

Nice vids, chaps and happy Independence day. :flags-waveusa:

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